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Life in the UK 🍫Easter Traditions🐰 Beginner English Story with Subtitles | British English Accent

English shadowing practice · 180 sentences · 9:20 long · 768 words

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “Life in the UK 🍫Easter Traditions🐰 Beginner English Story with Subtitles | British English Accent” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 180 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 87 words per minute, a slow pace, with an average of 4.3 words per sentence. That makes it a good choice for beginners and for working on individual sounds.

How to practise with this video

1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (English)

1. 0:00 hello and welcome to lovely english
2. 0:03 stories thank you for stopping by
3. 0:07 this story is written for beginner to
4. 0:09 intermediate english learners
5. 0:12 you can download the pdf transcript of
6. 0:15 this and other stories on our patreon
7. 0:18 page you can find the link in the
8. 0:20 description box below
9. 0:23 ready
10. 0:24 let's get started
11. 0:27 before we start reading
12. 0:29 let's go through some of the difficult
13. 0:32 words in this story
14. 0:34 this will help your understanding
15. 0:40 mass
16. 0:41 mass
17. 0:43 a mass is a religious ceremony
18. 0:47 religious
19. 0:49 religious
20. 0:51 if you are religious
21. 0:54 then you believe in a religion and a god
22. 0:58 or god's
23. 1:00 tomb
24. 1:02 tomb
25. 1:04 a tomb is a large stone structure or
26. 1:08 underground room where someone
27. 1:11 especially an important person
28. 1:14 is buried
29. 1:18 tradition
30. 1:19 tradition
31. 1:21 a tradition is a way of behaving
32. 1:25 or a belief that has happened for a long
33. 1:29 time
34. 1:31 branch
35. 1:32 branch
36. 1:34 a branch is a part of something larger
37. 1:38 for example a tree branch grows out from
38. 1:42 the main trunk and grows leaves and
39. 1:45 flowers
40. 1:47 celebrate
41. 1:48 to celebrate
42. 1:50 to celebrate is to take part in
43. 1:53 something enjoyable and to show that it
44. 1:56 is special
45. 2:01 donkey
46. 2:03 donkey
47. 2:04 a donkey is an animal that looks
48. 2:08 like a small horse
49. 2:10 but has bigger ears
50. 2:13 exchange
51. 2:15 exchange
52. 2:17 to exchange is when one person gives
53. 2:20 someone something
54. 2:22 and they give something back in return
55. 2:26 hide
56. 2:28 to hide
57. 2:30 to hide is to put something in a place
58. 2:33 where that thing cannot be seen
59. 2:36 or found
60. 2:40 disciple
61. 2:42 disciple
62. 2:44 a disciple is a person who believes in
63. 2:47 the ideas of a leader
64. 2:50 usually religious or political
65. 2:53 and they try to live in the same way
66. 2:57 crucify
67. 2:59 to crucify
68. 3:01 to crucify is to kill someone by
69. 3:05 fastening them to a cross with nails
70. 3:09 rose
71. 3:11 rose is the past simple of to rise
72. 3:15 which means to stand up or
73. 3:18 to become
74. 3:20 higher
75. 3:24 now
76. 3:26 let's start reading hopefully those
77. 3:29 explanations will help
78. 3:32 a2 b1
79. 3:35 english story
80. 3:37 easter
81. 3:40 this coming weekend will be easter
82. 3:44 weekend in the uk
83. 3:47 the date of easter changes every year
84. 3:51 it is celebrated on the first sunday
85. 3:55 after the full moon
86. 3:58 on or after march 21st
87. 4:02 this year
88. 4:03 easter sunday falls on sunday april
89. 4:08 17th
90. 4:11 most people celebrate easter
91. 4:14 by enjoying the long weekend with their
92. 4:18 friends and family
93. 4:21 most companies around the uk
94. 4:25 close for good friday and
95. 4:29 easter monday
96. 4:33 many people exchange chocolate eggs on
97. 4:37 easter sunday
98. 4:39 and some families make easter egg hunts
99. 4:43 for their children
100. 4:46 they hide easter eggs around their house
101. 4:50 and garden for their children to find
102. 4:57 for religious people
103. 5:00 easter is one of the most important
104. 5:04 times of the year
105. 5:06 the week up to easter is called
106. 5:10 holy week
107. 5:12 it starts with palm sunday
108. 5:15 which is the sunday before
109. 5:19 easter sunday
110. 5:22 palm sunday
111. 5:24 is when jesus arrived in jerusalem
112. 5:28 riding on a donkey
113. 5:32 lots of people came to see him
114. 5:36 and they put palm branches on the road
115. 5:41 nowadays
116. 5:43 churches give out small crosses made
117. 5:47 from palm leaves to remember this day
118. 5:51 you might see that some people keep
119. 5:55 these small crosses in
120. 5:58 their homes
121. 6:02 the next important day is monday
122. 6:06 thursday
123. 6:08 this is the thursday before easter
124. 6:11 sunday
125. 6:13 on this day
126. 6:15 christians remember when jesus ate the
127. 6:19 passover meal with his disciples
128. 6:23 this is called the last supper
129. 6:28 christians eat bread and drink red wine
130. 6:33 at holy communion or
131. 6:36 mass
132. 6:39 good friday is the friday before easter
133. 6:44 sunday
134. 6:45 this was the day that jesus was
135. 6:49 crucified
136. 6:51 on this day
137. 6:53 christians remember jesus
138. 6:56 and that he died
139. 6:59 on the
140. 7:00 cross easter sunday is the day of
141. 7:05 jesus's
142. 7:06 resurrection
143. 7:08 after jesus was crucified his body was
144. 7:13 taken to a tomb
145. 7:16 roman soldiers put a big stone over the
146. 7:21 entrance of the tomb
147. 7:27 on the sunday
148. 7:29 mary magdalene and some of the disciples
149. 7:34 went to visit the tomb
150. 7:38 the big stone in front of the tomb had
151. 7:42 been moved
152. 7:43 and jesus's body was not inside
153. 7:48 for the next 40 days
154. 7:51 people kept seeing
155. 7:54 jesus
156. 7:56 it is said that he rose from the dead
157. 8:01 that is why christians call it
158. 8:05 the resurrection
159. 8:09 around easter
160. 8:11 aside from eating lots of chocolate
161. 8:15 easter eggs
162. 8:18 people also eat hot crossed buns
163. 8:24 these are normally eaten on good friday
164. 8:29 to remember jesus
165. 8:32 on
166. 8:32 the cross
167. 8:37 do you celebrate easter
168. 8:40 if so
169. 8:41 what traditions do you have
170. 8:44 tell us in the comments below
171. 8:50 we hope you enjoyed this lovely english
172. 8:53 story and the vocabulary explanations
173. 8:57 get productive this spring and check out
174. 9:00 our language learning productivity packs
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176. 9:06 off you can find the link in the
177. 9:08 description below
178. 9:10 thank you for stopping by and don't
179. 9:12 forget to like subscribe and share
180. 9:16 see you soon

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